Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 832 · 40 questions

Artist's tip (White up, black down): Tint = colour + white (lighter): pink, sky blue, light green, lilac, pale yellow. Shade = colour + black (darker): maroon, navy blue, dark green, bottle green, dark purple. Tone = colour + grey. Mixing a tint, start with white and add colour a little at a time; a row from white to black is a value scale.

1. 1.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
2. 2.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) light green
7. 7.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) lilac
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
13. 13.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) value scale
14. 14.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
16. 16.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) maroon
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) dark green
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) dark purple
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) pink
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) lilac
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) dark green (d) sky blue
36. 36.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
37. 37.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) pink
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) dark red
40. 40.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False

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